Militarism and a Uni-polar World  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9946
A quote...."The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently became the founding chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Soon the membership of the Commission had grown to 300 members, including prominent political figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most members of the Trilateral Commission are bankers, media moguls, or corporate CEOs, primarily from North America, Europe and Japan, while all members of the CFR are U.S. Citizens."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20632.htm
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Media Blackout: The Armada in the Gulf  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north648.html
War Warning - As the author points out, there's very little activity or "play" on this story, that's why this is classified as a War Warning instead of a War Alert. - mpg -- A quote...." This story has been completely ignored by the news media all over the West. The only coverage is from special-interest websites. It was only on Saturday morning, August 23, that I learned what was going on. - I spent most of Saturday in an attempt to verify the basic story. Some of this story is easily verifiable. Other parts of it are circumstantial, but nevertheless compelling. I posted the story on my site late in the afternoon. You can read the details here."  ---  http://www.garynorth.com/public/3927.cfm  ---  For more on this issue see....Possible Order of Battle -- Iran Strike Group - 08-08-08  ---
 http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles//rapsheetarch/mpgrap-080608-081208#IRANSTRIKEGROUP
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PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings - More on the spin for war. - mpg
  ---  http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/index.htm
A quote...."Washington D.C., August 22, 2008 - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254 - The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados."
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US air strike massacres civilians in western Afghanistan  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/afgh-a26.shtml
A quote...."In one of the worst atrocities of the US-led occupation of Afghanistan, as many as 90 civilians were massacred by an American air strike last Friday in the western province of Herat. At least 60 of those killed were children under the age of 15, according to Afghan government and military sources."
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U.N. Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080826_un_sides_with_afghans_in_airstrike_controversy/
A quote...."Iraq isn’t the only U.S.-occupied nation looking for some sovereignty. Afghan officials are calling for more regulation of foreign troops amid an uproar over U.S. airstrikes. One recent U.S.-led attack, according a U.N. investigation, probably killed 90 civilians—mostly children."
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Syria, Iran warm to Russia as US tensions grow  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=315234
A quote...."Syria's President Bashar Assad has publicly stepped up his outreach to old ally Russia in recent days, seeking aid to build up Syrian military forces and offering Moscow help in return — in an apparent effort to exploit a new Russian-American rift."
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No progress on Israel-Syria talks, Damascus says  ---  http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=113687
A quote...."No headway has been made after several rounds of indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel, said Syria's foreign minister Monday.Walid al-Moallem said the talks, mediated by Turkey, had �regrettably� not progressed enough for the two parties to hold direct negotiations, but added that both Israel and Syria were �serious� about solving outstanding issues, according to a report by the Associated Press."
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Taliban Gain New Foothold in Afghan City --- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/asia/27kandahar.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
A quote...."KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban bomber calmly parked a white fuel tanker near the prison gates of this city one evening in June, then jumped down from the cab and let out a laugh. Prison guards fired on the bomber as he ran off, but they missed, instead killing the son of a local shopkeeper, Muhammad Daoud, who watched the scene unfold from across the street."
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U.S. Officers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27abuse.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
A quote...."In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two of the soldiers said in sworn statements."
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A Bitter Rivalry Shatters Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?em
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s fledgling civilian government collapsed on Monday, as the leaders of the main two coalition parties turned their sights on each other, only a week after banding together to force the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf. -- The coalition’s failure, after just five months of governing Pakistan, worsened the leadership crisis in this nuclear-armed nation at a time when it faces a serious threat from the growing strength of the Taliban in the northwestern parts of its territory."
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Kurds warn of “violent reaction” if Iraqi army enters their areas  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-08-25%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."A senior Kurdish leader says Kurdish militia or peshmerga will confront Iraqi army units attempting to enter Kurdish areas. - Mahmoud Sinkawi said if Iraqi troops moved into Kurdish towns and villages in order to evacuate government buildings occupied by Kurdish factions and peshmerga they will be met with a “violent reaction.”
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Human error increasingly causes crashes of unmanned warplanes in Iraq, Afghanistan  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/173206
A quote...."MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (AP) _ As the U.S. military scrambles to get more robotic warplanes like the Predator drone aloft, it is confronting an unexpected adversary: human error. - The drones are prized by the Pentagon for their ability to provide reconnaissance imagery and close-air support to ground commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. - But an Air Force researcher has found that operator mistakes are responsible for a growing number of Predator mishaps in recent years, a period in which the drones have been flown by increasingly inexperienced crews."
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Empty Gestures will Not Help Abbas  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14109
A quote...."In order to give an idea of the magnitude of the issue, it might be useful to provide some facts and figures. At the moment, there are between 10,000 and 11,000 Palestinian prisoners languishing in various Israeli jails. This is a figure that has remained consistently high since the beginning of the Israeli occupation 41 years ago. The total number of Palestinians to have spent time in Israeli prison is estimated at 700,000, roughly one-fifth of the current Palestinian population of the occupied territories."
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Iran Launches New Submarine Production Line  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706051263
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar said Monday that the country has begun a submarine production line to equip its army for protecting the important oil shipping route of the Strait of Hormuz on the Persian Gulf."
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Russia Vows to Finish Iran's Bushehr Reactor in Months  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706051290
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Officials said a Russian nuclear delegation was scheduled to arrive in Iran in September 2008 to discuss a final timetable for the 1,000 megawatt Bushehr power plant."
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North Korea to suspend nuclear disablement  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/ts_nm/korea_north_dc
A quote...." SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it will stop disabling its nuclear facilities and consider restoring the Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic bombs, accusing the United States of violating a disarmament deal. - "We have decided to immediately suspend disabling our nuclear facilities," the North's KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. - "This measure has been effective on August 14 and related parties have been notified of it," the official said."
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NY Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/NY-Times-does-it-again-Mo-by-Luke-Ryland-080826-538.html
A quote...."In the article, Sanger and Broad (who co-wrote a book, Germs, with Judy Miller):  1) Provide an incomplete and misleading story by conveniently withholding pertinent, established facts.  2) Spin the story towards Iran, and away from other governments, fulfilling the government's propaganda needs again.  3) Carry out no investigation, relying on government spokespeople without checking facts, relying on documents, or agenda-free sources." -- The old gray lady....getting older all the time.  - mpg
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Google Earth increasingly compliant with censorship requests: US intelligence report
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Google_Earth_compliant_with_government_requests_0826.html
A quote...."Google has becoming increasingly compliant to government requests to block purportedly sensitive information -- including images of Tibet, military installations and even a General Electric research plant -- according to a new report prepared by the Open Source Center for the Bush Administration's Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and reports circulated online about areas Google has blocked or blurred."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1254-0-12-12--.html
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Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cindy-Sheehan-Bugged-in-De-by-Rob-Kall-080825-412.html
A quote...."Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 10 articles - Tuesday - [ Day 19 ] =====  ==========

Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection  ---  http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2301
A quote...."August 22, 2008 --  In Russia even more than in America, “Kosovo” rhymes with “I told you so.” - Many Americans don’t realize that the former Serbian province of Kosovo, which broke away in 1999 after US-led NATO forces bombed Serbia for 78 days, helped set the stage for the recent conflict between Russia and neighboring Georgia. - But Russian leaders, who like most leaders care intensely about what happens at their borders (Georgia) and to their longtime allies (Serbia), warned earlier this year that support for Kosovo’s independence would set a precedent that could trigger separatist conflicts in places like Georgia. - It was a warning that Washington and several of its European allies foolishly, even recklessly, failed to heed."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20629.htm
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The Story of Tskhinvali's Resistance  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,574516,00.html
Special Note - A quote...." 08/26/2008 -- When Georgian forces moved into the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7, they underestimated the Ossetians' determination to resist them. Young men opened fire with Kalashnikovs and teenagers hurled petrol bombs at tanks. Now the local Russian-sponsored regime is triumphant."
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Russia recognises Abkhazian & South Ossetian independence  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29521
A quote...."August 27, 2008, 0:54 - -Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed decrees, formally recognising the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He says the military conflict in South Ossetia has killed every hope for the peaceful co-existence of Ossetians, Abkhazians and Georgians within one country."
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Russia recognises Abkhazian & South Ossetian independence  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29521/video
Special Note - RT Video - A quote...."August 27, 2008, 0:54 -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed decrees, formally recognising the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He says the military conflict in South Ossetia has killed every hope for the peaceful co-existence of Ossetians, Abkhazians and Georgians within one country."
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Rebel Georgian regions celebrate their recognition by Russia  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080827/116307707.html
A quote...."11:24 | 27/ 08/ 2008 -- SUKHUMI, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Hundreds of people poured onto the streets of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on Tuesday night, celebrating Russia's recognition of their independence."
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Belarusian “deputies” urge Lukashenka to recognize independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia  ---  http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/8/26/9481/
A quote...."26.08.2008  -  I think that signing the decree on recognition of independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, is a very adequate and timely decision,” told the deputy chairman of the commission on international affairs and relations with the CIS Syarhei Kastsyan in an interview to BelaPAN."
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Georgian police forced from disputed village  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=315196
A quote...."Aug 26, 2008 12:05 EST -- MOSABRUNI, Georgia, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Russian forces pushed Georgian police out of a disputed village on the de facto South Ossetian border on Tuesday after a tense stand-off that underlined the fragility of their peace."
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Cache of Georgian arms found in Kodori Gorge  ---  http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080826/116279621.html
Photo Gallary - A quote...."A cache of six D-30 howitzers and 2,000 shells belonging to the Georgian army have been found in the village of Gujgur in the Kodori Gorge."
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US warships scrap visit to Georgian port-source  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=315491
A quote...."Aug 26, 2008 15:23 EST -- TBILISI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. warships have scrapped a plan to deliver relief supplies to Georgia's flashpoint port of Poti on Wednesday, a source close to the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said. - "The ships will not dock in Poti tomorrow," the source told Reuters, referring to a planned mission by the USS McFaul and another vessel. - Their presence would have been sure to enrage Russia, which has troops patrolling the port following a brief war with Georgia."
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Georgia reports new air attacks at military bases  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_south_ossetia
Just a reminder....From the History File -- A quote...."Fri Aug 8, 7:29 PM ET -- The fighting broke out as much of the world's attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush, were in Beijing. - The timing suggested Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his longtime pledge to wrest back control of South Ossetia — a key to his hold on power. The rebels seek to unite with North Ossetia, which is part of Russia. - Saakashvili agreed the timing was not coincidental, but accused Russia of being the aggressor......


For more on this issue see....American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 10 articles - Tuesday - [ Day 19 ] === ==========

S&P: Home prices drop by record amount in 2Q  ---  http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080826/home_prices.html?.v=5
A quote...."The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index tumbled a record 15.4 percent during the quarter from the same period a year ago. - The monthly indices also clocked in record declines. The 20-city index fell by 15.9 percent in June compared with a year ago, the largest drop since its inception in 2000. The 10-city index plunged 17 percent, its biggest decline in its 21-year history."
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Backlog of US homes for sale is worst on record
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/backlog-of-us-homes-for-sale-is-worst-on-record-908689.html
A quote...."The number of unsold homes on the market in the United States is at levels not seen for at least 40 years, and prices are continuing to slide, according to a disheartening new survey." -- Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1253-0-13-13--.html
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Census report shows rising poverty in US  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/pove-a27.shtml
A quote...."The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the official poverty rate in the United States rose in 2007 to 12.5 percent, compared to 12.3 percent the previous year. According to the bureau’s American Community Survey, last year 37.3 million Americans were living below the income level, which, according to the government, signifies poverty. - This is an increase of 800,000, or 2 percent, over the official poverty level for 2006. As damning as the official figures are, the real scale of poverty in the US is much higher. The government set the poverty cut-off point for a family of four in 2007 at $21,203. Such an income means outright destitution. Millions more Americans live in conditions that by any objective standard amount to poverty."
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Gold rises as oil firms, platinum up 1 pct
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=/data/business/2008/August/business_August857.xml&section=business
A quote...." SINGAPORE - Gold extended gains on Wednesday as fears of rising inflation, tensions between Russia and the West and a rebounding euro spurred speculative buying."
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Russia -- Just Relax!
08-25-08 - revised 08-27-08
mpg

Reinventing the Evil Empire  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9933
A quote...."For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different."
Also posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman08252008.html

Everybody in Russia should just RELAX!!! Yeah, sure, of course they (the western elites) are going to call the country and its people all sorts of names, and yeah, they're going to bring up all sorts of past errors (Stalin being one of the most egregious errors any country could ever make) and yeah, it's going to be "Bear Baiting 24/7" from now on and absolutely NO -- no matter what Russia does in the future, no matter how much it improves the standard of living for its people, no matter what strides it makes toward democracy, no matter how much Russia insists on its rights as a nation state or calls for a new multi-polar world order (or in point of fact, because it does so) NONE of Russia's actions or stated positions will be reported accurately or fairly by the mainstream western press, or change a single iota of current western elite policy thinking......SO? -- WHO CARES!

After all, the wealthy elites in some of these western countries get off on Abu Ghraib videos for Gods sake!  Does anyone actually care what they're thinking?  Would anyone want to?

Several countries in Europe are already headed down the road toward old-style Fascism.  As for what used to be called America, its in its last death throes as a Republic, soon to be remade into the New Roman Empire (N.R.E.), a deluded, narcissistic, self-obsessed, murderous, quasi-commercial-organized-crime syndicate, maintained solely by the massive and disproportionate use of force against weaker, resource rich countries, in a vain effort to keep its subject population, and more specifically, its wealthy elites, comfortably ensconced in the lifestyle they've become so accustomed to.

Russia should just relax, get over the nauseous, noxious, spewing by the west's mass-faux-infotainment complex, don't be defensive, and just say it’s open for honest trade and business with all comers.

More importantly it should distinguish itself and distance itself from current US and NATO policies throughout the world.  It should pose the the very singular, very pertinent and germane question that has not yet been asked of the world's peoples and leaders in Africa, Asia, South & Central America and especially the entire Middle East........

"Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?"

They should also pose the following questions to the entire international community.....

Do you REALLY want another eight years of George Bush's policies? (Bombs Away O-Bomb-a or Mad Dog McCain will make no difference in how the NRE conducts its foreign policy, none whatsoever.)

Do you really want to do "business" with a nation that has supported at one point or another, almost every single "terrorist" orgainization in the world?  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306

Do you really want to do "business" with elites, who in one particular nation, were so ruthless they at best set-up, or at worst, were directly involved with, the murder of almost three thousand of their own citizens?

Do you really want to do "business" with elites that say they're "helping" people and than (shudder) realize that some of them actually believe this as they bomb and kill millions?  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS

Do you really want to do "business" with the elites in one particular nation who blatantly and shamelessly encouraged a recently bought and paid for lackey to launch a blitzkrieg against ethnic groups in neighboring separatists provinces, killing hundreds of what were supposedly his "own" people, and than trumpet throughout their mass infotainment media the false claim
   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608  ---  that it was his country that was invaded first?

Do you really think these elites in the future won't use and encourage other "cooperative" client leaders in other nations to do the same to their respective neighbors?

Do you really want to do "business" with a nation that has renounced, derided, and shredded the United Nations, the World Court, the ABM treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Geneva Conventions, the Magna Carta, the Kyoto Treaty, and its very own Constitution?

Do you really want to do "business" with elites that have no shame, no remorse, no conscience, no restraint, no ability to tell the truth, or the difference between right from wrong, or the ability to honor any agreement, contract or promise, or for that matter show even the slightest bit of respect for the decent opinion of the rest of mankind?

Do you want to be just another victim in a long list of victims during the past sixty years of these elites' policies of mayhem and murder?

Do you really?  -- mpg
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Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080825_hedges_afghanistan_worsening/
Special Note - A quote...."The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind forward with their terrible human toll, even as the press and many Americans play who gets thrown off the island with Barack Obama. Coalition forces carried out an  airstrike that killed up to 95 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, 50 of them children, President Hamid Karzai said. And the mounting bombing raids and widespread detentions of Afghans are rapidly turning Afghanistan into the mirror image of Iraq. But these very real events, which will have devastating consequences over the next few months and years, are largely ignored by us. We prefer to waste our time on the trivia and gossip that swallow up air time and do nothing to advance our understanding of either the campaign or the wars fought in our name." -- Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/24/11125/
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Almost Half of Iraqi Adults Are Unemployed  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46696&s1=h1
Special Note - A quote...."BAGHDAD -- Every morning for a year and a half, Tariq Razzaq has been coming to the decrepit entrance of a neighborhood maintenance office in southern Baghdad with a single goal in mind: to get a job. Every morning, the office employees turn him down."
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The Past Destroyed: Five Years Later  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174968/chalmers_johnson_outlaw_administration
Special Note - A quote...."Few in the United States give much thought any longer to the looting of Iraq's cultural heritage, which continues to this day, under American occupation. And yet it has been a cataclysmic event in its own right. As I wrote long ago of the initial moments of destruction after American troops entered Baghdad in April 2003: "Words disappeared instantly. They simply blinked off the screen of Iraqi history, many of them forever. First, there was the looting of the National Museum. That took care of some of the earliest words on clay, including, possibly, cuneiform tablets with missing parts of the epic of Gilgamesh. Soon after, the great libraries and archives of the capital went up in flames and books, letters, government documents, ancient Korans, religious manuscripts, stretching back centuries -- all those things not pressed into clay, or etched on stone, or engraved on metal, just words on that most precious and perishable of all commonplaces, paper -- vanished forever. "
For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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International Reaction to Biden  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/international-reaction-to-biden.html
Special Note - A quote...Iraqi politicians greeted the the selection of Joe Biden as the Democratic vice presidential candidate with dismay because they oppose his soft partition plan for Iraq, an affront to Iraqi conceptions of national unity." -- For more on this issue see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Iraq
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#IRAQ
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Iran: US air base being built near Iranian border  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/173146
A quote...."Tehran, 25 August (AKI) - The United States has reportedly begun constructing a new military base in Iraq's Kurdistan region not far from the Iranian border. -- According to the state-owned Press TV, the Kurdistan Regional Government has allocated 700 hectares of land near Iran's border for the construction of a large US-financed airport."
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Iranian Supreme Leader backs Ahmadinejad's second term  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46698&s1=h1
A quote...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader has told Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to prepare for a second four-year presidential term, comments seen by some as a riposte to the president's critics before next year's election, media reported."
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Iran Plans to Boost Crude Exports to China, India  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706041423
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is likely to cut crude exports to some global buyers in a bid to increase sales to China and India, an Iranian oil official said."
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3rd Azarbaijan Pipeline will Save Iran $7bln a Year  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706031360
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Commissioning the third Azarbaijan gas pipeline will prevent the outflow of over $7 billion a year, the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC) managing director said here on Saturday."
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Iraq, US Agree No Foreign Troops After 2011: PM - We'll see.  Chances are - slim (really slim), to none. - mpg
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20617.htm
A quote...." 25/08/08 "France 24" -- - Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday Washington and Baghdad have agreed there will be no foreign forces in Iraq after 2011, setting a timeline for a US withdrawal from the war-torn country. - Maliki stressed however that despite "significant progress", there are "still points of disagreement crucial to both sides" in the proposed security pact that will decide the future of US forces in Iraq."
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Maliki Promises to Stand Firm on Sovereignty - We'll see. - mpg
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080825_maliki_promises_to_stand_firm_on_sovereignty/
A quote...."Speaking to tribal leaders in Iraq’s capital, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged not to sign a deal with the U.S. that didn’t include a withdrawal date. He also said he would not accept “absolute immunity for anybody, whether Iraqis or foreigners.” That’s a sticking point for the Bush administration, although a draft deal is said to include limited immunity for U.S. soldiers, along with a pullout date of 2011."
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Nawaz Sharif’s Party Exits Coalition, Pakistani Government Hanging on by a Thread
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/08/25/nawaz-sharifs-party-exits-coalition-pakistani-government-hanging-on-by-a-thread/
A quote...."Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party would leave Pakistan’s coalition government to join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some 60 judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf, including controversial Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry."
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Israel Unable To Stop Liberty - Report from SS Liberty docked in Gaza  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20610.htm
A quote...." 25/08/08 'ICH" -- - 24/08/08 - Gaza-- I was too overwhelmed yesterday to put pen to paper after the magnificent welcome I and my fellow peace activists from SS Liberty and SS Free Gaza received as we entered the port of Gaza ... the first ships to sail in since 1967."
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Any Pope in a Storm: Benny Bashes Berlusconi's Neo-Fascism  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1588/135/
A quote...."An ex-Hitler Youth certainly knows a thing or two about fascism -- so when Pope Benedict XVI weighed in with a warning about the resurgent state-backed racism and repression in the birthplace of the pernicious right-wing doctrine last Sunday, it provoked a firestorm in Italian politics."
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Bolivia: Right-wing rebellion spurs left offensive  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9938
A quote...."Violent attacks on police officers, roadblocks, civic stoppages enforced by armed fascist youth groups and threats to cut off meat supplies and take over gas fields have all been part of what left-wing Bolivian President Evo Morales has denounced as an attempted "civil coup" by "desperate people" following his August 10 recall referendum victory."
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Obama's Uninspired Choice for Veep - Biden His Time  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/waj08252008.html
A quote...."Barack Obama, that Presidential coquette who teased the world by not announcing his running mate for nearly two months, finally unveiled his vanilla, Vice Presidential bride, thus ultimately opting for a marriage of blandness, predictability and conciliation.  Obama’s choice of Joe Biden, the 65 year old Senator from Delaware, now officially cements Obama’s ideological shift from a progressive message of “change” to a placating message of  “more of the same…but better than that other guy, we swear!” -- And people keep falling for the same gag, over and over again. - mpg
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Government Urges Return to Stone Age  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/government-urges-return-to-stone-age.html
Must Read - A quote...."The White House and U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are urging Americans to return to the stone age for their own safety. -- "After discovering that 'thermal expansion' of steel from a low-temperature fire led to the collapse of World Trade Center building 7," said NIST spokesperson Noh Wei, "we started realizing that other metal objects might also be at risk". -- So NIST scientists tested other metallic objects using state-of-the-art computer models. The models predicted that every oven and barbeque in the country could disintegrate at any time, leading to a progressive collapse of entire houses. -- "We also determined that car engines, airplane engines, and boat engines could all suddenly fail due to thermal expansion," said Wei. "Indeed, we soon realized that almost all industrial processes could lead to catastrophic failure, other than, perhaps, those used in freezers."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 5 articles - Monday - [ Day 18 ] =====  ==========

Russia's upper house recognizes Georgia's rebel regions
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2008/August/theworld_August1505.xml&section=theworld
A quote...." MOSCOW - Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday. - In an emergency meeting of the Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from Georgia."
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Russian Parliament Recognizes Breakaway Georgian Enclaves  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/russian-parliament-recognizes-breakaway-georgian-enclaves
A quote...."Moscow - Russia's parliament voted unanimously Monday to recognize the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions that its military invaded earlier this month."
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Tbilisi axes last Russian TV channel -- RT Video  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCVFtMApOeg  ---  (YouTube - 4m 16s - Added:  August 19, 2008)
  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29205
A quote...."Georgia has pulled the plug on the last Russian-language television channel broadcasting in the country. RTVi was closed after it broadcast an interview with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov."
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Rice Suddenly Loses Power of Speech behind Stripes  ---  http://watchingamerica.com/News/4642/rice-suddenly-loses-the-power-of-speech/
A quote...."But why America’s leading diplomat was so suddenly hidden by a caption was only too clear: the secretary of state’s disappearance came before a rather uncomfortable question from a representative of the media."
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Upper chamber backs independence of Abkazia and S. Ossetia  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Ek9JQnBUE  ---  (YuTb - 5m 7s - August 25, 2008)
RT - Video -- A quote...."Russia's upper chamber of parliament has unanimously voted to ask the Russian President to recognise independence of Abkazia and South Ossetia." -- Alt video @ iReport  ---  http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-65726
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South Ossetia and Abkhazia to follow in Kosovo's footsteps?  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29458
A quote...."After Kosovo declared independence in February this year, Russia warned that other breakaway regions would follow suit. It now seems that the Pandora's box has been opened."
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Commodities Rally, Head for Biggest Weekly Advance Since 1975  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/220808Commodities.htm
Special Note - A quote...."This was posted Friday, Aug 22, 2008 -- Commodities headed for their biggest weekly gain in 33 years as oil traded near its highest for more than two weeks and a weakening dollar revived demand for raw materials as alternative assets." - underline by website editor.
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Inflation Rate is 5.6%... and Other Nonsense  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz90.html
A quote...."I’m a coin collector, in a small way. British issues of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly: Pistrucci, the Wyons – apogee of the engraver’s art. - To determine the market value of such coins, advanced collectors keep up to date on current auctions, stuff like that. But as a starting point, the standard pricing guide is the hefty softcover catalog still generally known as the Krause, after original author Chester L. Krause."
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Profits hit with an ugly stick  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JH26Dj06.html
A quote...."It was when "official government-approved" inflation figures were released that I really lost it last week, as that particular rate of inflation is now a staggering 5.6%. This is - as you can probably tell by the look of panic and terror on my face - Terrible, Terrible News (TTN). -- And when you look at what John Williams at shadowstats.com calculates as inflation, according to the time-honored method of actually looking at real prices instead of the "qualified estimates" that are used today, you will see that annual inflation in consumer prices is actually running at over 13%! Some of the worst in American history! We're freaking doomed!"
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Sales of existing homes rise but so do inventories - Sales up 3.1% in July; inventories at record high on buildup of condos
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-existing-home-sales-rise-unsold/story.aspx?
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A quote...."July's inventory of unsold homes on the market rose 3.9% to a record 4.67 million units, representing a supply of 11.2 months based on the current sales pace. The inventory figures are not seasonally adjusted."
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Sunday August 24th 2008 - links page

No posts. - mpg

  
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 4 articles - Saturday - [ Day 16 ] =====  ==========

Syria reaps a Russian reward  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JH23Ak01.html
A quote...."Aug 23, 2008 -- President Bashar al-Assad landed in Russia on August 20, less than two weeks after the South Ossetia war started. Sending a strong message to the Russians ahead of his trip, he spoke to the Russian Kommerstant newspaper, "On this issue [of South Ossetia and Georgia] we fully support Russia. The Americans continue their Cold War policies ... The war, which was unleashed by Georgia, is the culmination of attempts to encircle and isolate Russia." He added, "Georgia started the crisis, but the West is blaming Russia. Everywhere there is total disinformation, distortion of facts, and international attempts to isolate Russia."
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Georgia was tricked, but by Russia or US?
  ---  http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2432197.0.georgia_was_tricked_but_by_russia_or_us.php
Must Read - A quote...."August 24, 2008  Est 1999 -- We are being sucked in, suckered and conscripted. As an economically embattled US flails after former glories, it fashions Nato into a blunt instrument. Whatever the organisation's purpose during the Cold War, it currently stands revealed as an expeditionary force on behalf of Washington's interests. That is not a useful development for Nato, Europe, America or the world."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20602.htm
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Ukraine opposition to send Georgian leader neckties to chew on  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/172982
A quote...."17:38 | 22/ 08/ 2008  -- KIEV, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's opposition party has pledged to send 365 neckties to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently caught on camera nervously chewing his garment while discussing the Georgian-Russian conflict." -- and here's the tie video....President Mikheil Saakashvili chews on his tie.  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkIxPx3LAbo  ---  (YouTube - 38 sec - Added:  August 17, 2008) -- and here's the rabbit video - Saakashvili Fled!   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx71y8a92Jw&feature=related  ---  (YouTube - 35 sec - Added:  August 11, 2008)
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Russian security source says Georgia planned attack year ahead  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080823/116236332.html
A quote...."17:12 | 23/ 08/ 2008MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia planned the military operation against its breakaway republic of South Ossetia a year in advance, a source in one of Russia's security bodies said Saturday."
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Najaf Demonstrations against Rice: "Rogue" Operation in Baquba; Sadr in Iran for 5 Years
  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/najaf-demonstrations-against-rice-rogue.html
A quote...."Secretary of State Condi Rice's visit to Baghdad for consultations on the US-Iraqi security agreement provoked a demonstration in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, with Sadrist crowds carrying placards warning against US intentions. The Sadrists said that they rejected any security agreement that lacked a specific timetable for US troop withdrawal, and would take up arms against any such treaty. Former Iraqi PM Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the Reform Movement, supported the criticism and said that the situation in Iraq was getting worse. The demonstration has been reported on the Iraq page in the Arab newspapers I looked at, but the demonstration appears to have been completely ignored by all English-language news services."
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U.S. forces free AP cameraman in Iraq  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKGRA37724220080823
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces freed a cameraman for the Associated Press in Baghdad on Saturday after holding him for three months without charge, the news agency said."
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Musharraf in 'protective custody'
  ---  http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=&id=874d0802-89
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A quote...."Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is under protective custody and will be allowed to move freely only after a new head of the state is elected and the judges he sacked after declaring an emergency in November 2007 are restored, an official said. - "He is under protective custody but is free to meet friends and relatives," said the official, adding this is mainly because of security reasons."
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Civilian deaths anger Afghans  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/08/200882310305732758.html
A quote...."Hundreds of Afghans have staged a protest in the Shindand district in western Afghanistan after scores of people were reportedly killed in an raid by US-led forces.  The Afghan interior ministry has said that at least 76 civilians died in Thursday's attack, most of them women and children."
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India won't accept conditions on U.S. nuclear deal-report  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=311474
A quote...."NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - India will not agree to any conditions to get approval from an atomic trade cartel necessary for a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, a report quoted India's foreign minister as saying on Saturday."
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Afghan Leader Assails Airstrike He Says Killed 95  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/asia/24afghan.html
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned on Saturday a coalition airstrike that he said killed up to 95 Afghans — including 50 children — in a village in western Afghanistan on Friday, and said his government would be announcing measures to prevent the loss of civilian life in the future."
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IRAQ: U.S.-backed Sunni miltiamen on the run  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46646&s1=h1
A quote...."The Los Angeles Times reports today on the Iraqi government's desire to disband the U.S.-funded Sunni paramilitaries, made up of former insurgents, who helped halt the country's open sectarian war. The U.S. military has watched as the government has dissolved the Sons of Iraq movement in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib and severely restricted it in the city of Baquba."
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Iraq invites Russian oil company back - Obviously the Neocons will have to do some talking to Maliki - mpg
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D92M5K900.htm
A quote...."An Iraqi Cabinet minister invited Russia's Lukoil on Wednesday to renew its bid on the vast West Qurna-2 oil field and urged Russian companies to seek roles rebuilding dilapidated power plants as Iraq searches for foreign investment to revive its oil industry and infrastructure."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1206-0-13-13--.html
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Iran's Melli Bank Posts 33% Rise in Profit  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706021271
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Assets of the Baku branch of Bank Melli Iran (BMI) stood at AZN 20.7 million on July 1, up 15% from a year earlier."
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An Interview with Cindy Sheehan Targeting Pelosi (and the War Machine)  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/frank08232008.html
A quote...."Cindy Sheehan's independent antiwar campaign against Rep. Nancy Pelosi is beginning to gain steam in San Francisco. I recently caught up with Cindy to discuss her bid for Congress as well as the Democrat's perpetual incompetence. – JF"
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Why cult of presidency is bad for democracy  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/21/EDCQ12G3M0.DTL
A quote...."The once-every-four-years hope for the lever pull sensation of democratic power blinds people to the opportunities for democratic representation, deliberation, activism and change that surrounds us in local elections," she writes in her new book, "Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People." -- In a country whose anti-royalist founders constitutionally constrained executive authority, what explains the metastatic growth of presidentialism? The evisceration of journalism and social movements."
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Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI Files  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080819134122239
A quote...."Last week, Scott Horton interviewed (audio) investigative journalist Joe Lauria. Lauria was one of the co-authors of the three-part (1, 2, 3) series on the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds for the UK's Sunday Times. - In the interview Lauria discusses the Sibel Edmonds case, the state of the US media, and the Military Industrial Complex in the context of his new book with presidential candidate Mike Gravel: "A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Mans Fight to Stop It" - In the interview, Lauria says that he spoke at length to the three FBI agents who were Sibel's immediate bosses at the FBI and that they "corroborated in general terms, that this story is true."
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World Trade Center 7 and the NIST Report  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/World-Trade-Center-7-and-t-by-William-Helbig-080823-598.html
Must Read - Good Call - A quote...."It now appears likely that Bush is cleaning up the remaining unsolved mysteries before he heads to Crawford, Texas.   Bush knows well enough that he cannot be prosecuted criminally while still in office.   However, The Federalist Papers, a collection of eighty-five essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, sets the precedent for prosecution after a president leaves office.  Now that the Anthrax attacks have identified a villain, the remaining mysteries to clear-up are the following: The mysterious collapse of WTC Building Seven in the late afternoon of September 11, 2001, and the hide and seek game with Osama Bin Laden.  The remaining events will surely be cleared-up in the coming weeks, as well as low gas prices, so the torch can be passed to John McCain, so the same story, with the same theme and plot, can be continued for the next one hundred years, until all of the oil is drained from the Middle Eastern spigot.”

9/11 the Sequel - Return of the Jihadi™
08-23-08 - revised 08-27-08
mpg.

Yes, the author is absolutely correct.  Our elites are very busy tidying up any embarrassingly messy or loose ends regarding this ten year cycle of "event" production  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  while closing out the books on this decade in preparation for the next, it's why all you viewers out there are now being treated to the hilarious and sublimely ridiculous "Anthrax & Ivins" saga.

It's a tearful tale of a lone, confused, genius who somehow, "all by himself", used a "magical flask" to create some deadlier than usual "fairy dust" – “fairy dust” which tested and acted just like the hard to manufacture, highly expensive variety. This paradox of a difficult to manufacture "fairy dust" impossibly made by one lone individual was only explained when the powerful sorcerers at Sandia Labs secretly working over seven years finally discovered a "new method"  ---  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/08/21/fbi.unveils.science.anthrax.investigation  ---  of analyzing this deadly concoction.
Whereupon as required in all good fairy tales, the dreaded villain promptly met his fate, filled with remorse over his deeds while relentlessly being tracked down by our intrepid pursuers he took his own life, making a neat and tidy end to the whole affair.  Although such a tried and true plot device as suicide seems a little tacky and predictable, after all its been used so often and so repeatedly in these sorts of dramas that its become passé, (the DC Madam of Enticement who was found hanging of shame because of her famous evil spell book, filed with scurrilous rumors of our lords and ladies of Washington, and many similar episodes comes to mind) it still did not detract from the tales overall effectiveness.

This highly entertaining saga is currently being shown on many mass-faux-infotainment outlets near you.

This inventive tale of detective work was produced by none other than the fabulous FBI boys who brought you such other wonderful heartwarming tales as “Back Off The bin-Ladens, They’re Our Friends”  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#FBI_OBSTRUCTED  ---  and the emotionally stirring, Emmy Award winning, “Flights to Freedom”  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/flights911-weblist-mpg-081906  ---  series, also featuring the bin-Ladens and guest staring the Saudi Royals.

And of course while our fun loving wealthy elites are treating us to such wonderful productions as “Anthrax & Ivins”, they’re also distributing the even more hilarious Nebula Award winning work of sheer lunacy titled “The New Phenomenon That Ate WTC-7"  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/BREAKING_NIST_%3CI%3Efinally%3CI%3E_poses_theory_on_0821.html  ---   produced by those scientifically incompetent, but fun loving fantasists at NIST.  Now admittedly they had several prior productions that were panned by their ever so critical public, who for whatever reason expected a “reality TV show” or (gasp) some sort of turgid and boring documentary,
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-cmplt-082308  ---   but the happy go-lucky folks at NIST came through with flying colors this time around totally ignoring their critics and producing such a spectacular work of fiction that it will be remembered long after its producers have left their careers behind them.

But the author shown above is incorrect in one respect, given that there’s no obvious or discernable difference between the Demo or Repub divisions of DemoRepub Productions Incorporated-DRPI™, this energetic effort to tidy up these unseemly loose ends is not only for the benefit of well known actor, action-hero, "Mad Dog McCain”, but also for the most likely alternate star, the suave and sophisticated “Bombs Away O-Bomb-a”

Both of them will now be free, after whichever is selected in the upcoming National American Idol Beauty Contest, to take the lead in what had heretofore only been secretly rumored, but can now be revealed by this website editor.

That’s right folks, special event industry insiders have hinted to several knowledgeable sources in the entertainment business that the long anticipated “9/11 the Sequel – Return of the Jihadi™” may finally go into production.   The sequel will star the usual hordes of unidentifiable extras leased from Casting Individuals Associates (CIA), funded by the same wonderful Saudi Royals that brought you that first spectacular production which profoundly changed the mass-infotainment industry forever, and as usual, the hired extras will be ready and willing to do their utmost level best to thrill audiences everywhere.

Yes folks, the first “9/11 – Freedom Hating Cave Dwelling Malcontents™” was such an outstanding success and made such enormous sums of money for it’s producers, Neo-conned Inc., the deep-pocketed Movies Industrial Complex (MIC) and the Oil Brothers that they’ve decided to treat us all to another go around.

Now keep in mind folks, this sequel hasn’t been produced yet, it’s only in the initial stages of the production process and financing and secrecy are the keys to this sort of activity.  So remember, mums the word, everyone should congratulate the FBI boys and those fun loving scientific incompetents over at NIST on their other wonderful productions along with the enormous help they've already provided in bringing "9/11 – Freedom Hating Cave Dwelling Malcontents™", to infotainment outlets everywhere, kudos and congratulations all around of course.  But it's very important that there's no peeking or poking around regarding how they helped produce that first amazingly thrilling episode or how they’re going to help the MIC, Neo-conned Inc., or the Oil Brothers produce “9/11 the Sequel”.

Remember it could ruin everything.

So enjoy people, you now have two stellar works of fiction that should last you throughout the remainder of this mass-faux-infotainment season well until the scheduled release of the next event “9/11 the Sequel - Return of the Jihadi™” sometime in 2009 through 2011. – mpg

For more regarding this issue see....You Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
And....Obama, the Yang to Bush's Yin - 06-20-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/obamatheyangtobushsyin-blog-mpg-062008
And....The Great Game - In 3D - 06-15-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreatgamein3d-blog-mpg-061508
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Judge Sides with Maker of “Bush Lied” T-Shirt  ---  http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx0822b08.html
A quote...."You’ve probably seen the T-shirt around. - On the front, in huge capital letters, are the words “Bush Lied.” And on the back, also huge, the words, “They Died.” - In tiny type, on both sides, are the names of all of the U.S. soldiers who have fallen in Iraq. - Dan Frazier of Flagstaff is the maker of the shirts, and you can find them at his website, carryabigsticker.com."  ---  http://www.carryabigsticker.com/
 Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/23/11111/
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Saturday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 23 ] ===  ==========

More study needed in anthrax case  ---  http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/501600.html
A quote...."POSTED: August 23, 2008 -- Was the late U.S. biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide under the belief that he was about to be indicted, a diabolical killer responsible for several deaths immediately after 9/11? -- The FBI claims he was, and has released its evidence, which unfortunately raises more doubts than it answers. Bonafide experts on anthrax and bioterrorism disagree as to whether the FBI really made its case, or if it had merely found another scapegoat."
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The Anthrax Attacks, the Fake "War on Terror", and the Assault on Civil Liberties  ---  http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?21384S
A quote...."In last weekend’s edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush Regime’s need to produce “terrorists” in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush Regime’s assault on US civil liberties."

This ends the Anthrax series on day 23, as the government's case continues to dissolve and more is revealed regarding the "magical flask" (the sole and only proof the FBI has provided so far, using of course their brand "new" scientific method) this website will continue to provide updates and further details on the ongoing attempted cover-up. - mpg
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Saturday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 23 ] ===  ==========

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009  ---  http://seekingalpha.com/article/90892-the-great-consumer-crash-of-2009
Must Read - Charts -- A quote...."I hate to tell you, but the storm has reached your location and it is a Category 5 hurricane. The levees are leaking. Ignore it at your own peril. The 6,000 sq ft McMansion buying, BMW leasing, $5 Starbucks latte drinking, granite countertop upgrading, home equity borrowing days are coming to an end. The American consumer will not go without a fight." -- For more on this issue see....Effective Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407
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Auto industry seeking $50B in loans from Congress  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/_Auto_industry_seeking_50B_in_0822.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON -- Automakers plan to urge Congress to support funding up to $50 billion in low-interest loans over three years to help them modernize their assembly plants and develop next-generation fuel-efficient vehicles."

Friday August 22nd 2008 - links page

The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 15 articles - Friday - [ Day 15 ] =====  ==========

The Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9907
Must Read - A quote...."August 22, 2008 -- The ongoing crisis in the Caucasus is intimately related to the strategic control over energy pipeline and transportation corridors. - There is evidence that the Georgian attack on South Ossetia on August 7 was carefully planned. High level consultations were held with US and NATO officials in the months preceding the attacks. - The attacks on South Ossetia were carried out one week after the completion of extensive US - Georgia war games (July 15-31st, 2008). They were also preceded by high level Summit meetings held under the auspices GUAM, a US-NATO sponsored regional military alliance."
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The Saakashvili Experiment  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20592.htm
Must Read - A quote...."22/08/08 "ICH " -- Just as the world's attention was focussed on China's Beijing Olympics, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, on 7 August, invaded the tiny breakaway province of South Ossetia. The initial attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskninvali, soon extended to an all out war, which eventually invited Russia's wrath, and the death of thousands of innocent civilians on both sides.
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Scheunemann, Iraq and Georgia  ---  http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/347062/scheunemann_iraq_and_georgia
Must Read - A quote...."posted on 08/21/2008 @ 11:01am -- If there's any comic relief in the war between Russia and Georgia, it's this statement from Randy Scheunemann, John McCain's top foreign policy adviser: "In the twenty-first century, nations don't invade other nations." Coming from America's No. 1 advocate for invading Iraq -- Scheunemann headed the neocon-inspired Committee for the Liberation of Iraq in 2002 -- that's rich. Or perhaps Scheunemann thinks the US invasion of Iraq happened in an earlier century." -- Also posted at GlobRsrch   ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9915
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m46594&hd=&size=1&l=e
& YahooNews  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080821/cm_thenation/1096347062_1
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Georgian Forum  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs87.html
A quote...."Well, maybe it's not really so funny, especially if someone you care about has been killed or wounded in the recent fray in the South Caucasus, but corporate shareholders who are heavily invested in U.S. military-contractor stocks are laughing all the way to the bank. In their world, nothing makes for success as much as a little shooting and looting in a U.S. client state next door to Russia."
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Under Moscow's wing  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/22/syria.israelandthepalestinians?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
A quote...."Friday August 22 2008 12:30 BST -- Israel's involvement with the Georgian military has been somewhat overlooked in light of more blatant US support, such as the airlift of some 2,000 Georgian troops from Iraq at the start of the conflict. However Misha Glenny spotted it, writing in the New Statesman that Prime Minister Putin warned President Shimon Peres to "pull out your trainers and weapons or we will escalate our co-operation with Syria and Iran" – after which Israel dutifully complied." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20584.htm
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US Ambassador to Moscow: Russia Was Justified in Responding to Georgia Attacks  ---  http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=96353
A quote...."The former US Ambassador to Bulgaria John Beyrle, who is already in charge of the American Embassy in Moscow, said Russia was justified in responding to the Georgian attacks on the Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia."
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Saakashvili asked the U.S. to send him a plane in the heat of the conflict  ---  http://www.kp.ru/daily/24150.4/366384/
Special Note - A quote...."It turns out Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili planned to leave the country"
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Georgia set for military action - Russian General Staff  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080822/116215518.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is preparing for military action in its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official warned Friday."
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Syria: we'll host Russian missile system  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNd5sznQo68  ---  (YouTube - 3 min 55 sec - Added:  August 22, 2008)
RT - Video - A quote...."Syria says it's ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The offer was made during a meeting between Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad and President Dmitry Medvedev in the Black Sea resort of Sochi."
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Turkey insists US did not seek authorization - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=113355
A quote...."Friday, August 22, 2008 -- Turkey insists that the United States had not sought authorization for the passage of two U.S. military hospital ships �Mercy� and �Comfort� through the straits to dispatch humanitarian aid to war-hit Georgia."
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Georgia started the war -- Pat Buchanan  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBRl-BvKJII  ---  (YouTube - 13 min 41 sec - Added:  August 22, 2008)
Must View - RT - Video -- A quote...."Did US officials know about Georgia's plans to attack its breakaway region? The issue deserves a special hearing in the US Congress, according to American political commentator Pat Buchanan."
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Ameri-conned  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ameri-conned-by-hal-smith-080820-870.html
A quote...."August 21, 2008 at 20:22:18 -- How can we be so DUMB? - The day is Tuesday 8/20/2008.  The time is 14:48 CST. I am sitting in my office that is in the Midwest and I am reading the news wires over and over and over again.  Georgia.  Russia.  These news wires all say the same thing.  All except for one, Reuters!  To me, this is one of the only news wires that can be somewhat trusted. I stress somewhat! - I mean if you have a brain and by now have realized how to use it, you DO NOT watch the mainstream media broadcasting on the big black box that sits in your living room.  If you have been able to get past the flicker effect and the boobs that are placed on there to distract you, you will be able to see that it is all very well placed propaganda." -- By the way regarding the authors contention that Reuters can be "somewhat trusted", that's one of the reasons their reporters have been deliberatly targeted among all the wires.  For more on this issue see..US - Killing the Messenger - Reuters  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/uskillingthemessenger-weblist-mpg-112907#REUTERS
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How the American “free press” toed the government line on Georgia  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46610&s1=h1
A quote...."The change in the media line corresponded to a sharpening of the anti-Russian posture of the Bush administration. For the first few days of the conflict, when no clear line had been laid down by the government, the mainstream media was somewhat at sea. But once the official line had been clearly established, the corporate-controlled media snapped to attention and marshaled all of its considerable resources to perform its customary service of vetting the "news" and manipulating public opinion to suit the aims and requirements of the state."
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A Free Press? Not This Time.  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=66972
A quote...."I wish I could fly back to Russia. I have been in the United States for a year, and I am studying and working here to get experience in American journalism, known worldwide for its independence and professionalism. But in recent days it has felt as though I am too late, that the journalism of Watergate is well behind us and that reporting is no longer fair and balanced."
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Russia Prevailed on the Ground, but Not in the Media
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/world/europe/22moscow.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
A quote...."Yet for all the government’s success at managing the news in Russia, it has seemed ill prepared to press its case internationally. It failed to grasp that the same figure it was mocking on its channels, President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia, was using his fluency in English to dominate coverage in the rest of the world.- And the Russians were nowhere, at least early on."

Well, shucks and tarnation folks. While hundreds of people in South Ossetia were dying from a pre-planned Saakashvili/Bush blitzkrieg the "Judy Miller New York Times" bemoans the fact the Russkies didn't have sufficient spin control because they didn't have the smarts to hire some well connected Madison Avenue public relations firm.

You see our mass-faux-media has become so well conditioned to take spoon fed crap from our wealthy elites, so inured to the truth.....that they actually think that's how they're supposed to "go out" and get the news.  No wonder the Times readership is declining. - mpg

For more on this issue see....American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 15 articles - Friday - [ Day 15 ] =====  ==========

The Limits of American Power  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/081908e.html
posted at ConsortiumNews ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
A quote...."In a letter written in 1648, the Swedish statesman, Axel Oxenstierna, chancellor to both King Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina, counseled, “Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.”
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Russia says NATO needs its help on Afghanistan
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/22/worldupdates/2008-08-21T215342Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-351214-1&sec=Worldupdates
A quote...."SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told NATO on Thursday that both sides benefited from joint cooperation and he pointedly raised the issue of Russian transit support for Alliance forces in Afghanistan."
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Documents reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_US_case_for_Iraq_0822.html
Must Read - A quote...."New documents from within the Bush administration and US intelligence community during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq reveal that the White House began assembling a case for war before it had compiled the intel that ostensibly formed the basis of that case."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1199-0-21-21--.html
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46612&s1=h1
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Curb Your Enthusiasm  ---  http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/347377
Must Read - A quote...."On the surface, it would seem that the US and Iraqi negotiators have sought to cut the baby in half, splitting the difference between Barack Obama's 16-month timetable that would remove US combat forces by 2010 and McCain's sort-of timetable to have US combat troops out by 2013. If early reports are true, American combat forces would remain in until the end of 2011, roughly halfway between the "Obama plan" and the "McCain plan." In addition, as envisioned in both the candidates' plans, tens of thousands of additional US forces would remain in Iraq to train and equip the Iraqi armed forces, battle terrorists, protect the Rhode Island-sized US embassy, and help Iraq secure its borders. --Not much to get excited about. Here's the way to read what's going on behind the scenes."
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Security Agreement Undermines McCain; Dulaimi Was Planting Bombs; Awakening Councils Targeted
  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/security-agreement-undermines-mccain.html
Some quotes....."Muthanna Dulaimi was caught while planting a roadside bomb! The son of the leader of the Iraqi Accord Front, which has cabinet seats in the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki and from which one vice president derives, appears to be an active terrorist!" -- "The security agreement  nearly completed between the Bush administration and the government of the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may pull the rug out from under Sen. John McCain on Iraq, according to AP. It will stipulate that US troops will be out of Iraqi cities by June, 2009 and then mostly out of Iraq by 2011." -- "General David Petraeus, who has long been at loggerheads with al-Maliki over the Awakening Councils confirms to McClacthy that the Iraqi government has been dragging its feet on absorbing fighters from the Awakening Councils into government security forces."
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Interior Ministry: US Airstrikes Kill 76 Afghan Civilians  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/08/interior-ministry-us-airstrikes-kill-76-afghan-civilians/
A quote...."Just one day after US airstrikes in Laghman province were reported to have killed at least 20 civilians, a much larger incident has occurred on the opposite side of the country in Herat Province. -- As with yesterday’s story, the initial US report claimed that 30 militants were killed, including an al-Qaeda commander. Though the Afghan Defense Ministry reported several homes were destroyed and that civilians were among the dead, US officials denied that there were any civilians killed. -- Shortly later, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry released a statement regarding the incident. In it they announced that 76 people, all civilians, had actually been killed in the strike." -- Ahhhh, the N.R.E.'s newest motto - kill we must, and lie about it too. - mpg
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Pakistan coalition rift widens as violence rages  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822/wl_afp/pakistanpoliticsunrest_14
A quote...."ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's ruling coalition was riven by divisions despite crunch talks on Friday, raising fears for the government's ability to tackle Taliban bloodshed after a massive bombing killed 64 people."
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Military offensive displaces 300,000 in north-west Pakistan  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/paki-a23.shtml
A quote...."Since August 10, the military has stayed in those defensive positions but aerial bombing and artillery barrages have been used to literally depopulate Bajaur and areas of the adjoining agency of Mohmand. After more than two weeks of indiscriminate attacks against alleged militant positions, it is estimated that 300,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes—a significant proportion of the population in the areas not under government control."
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MIDEAST:  A Civil War in the Making  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43634
A quote...."CAIRO, Aug 22 (IPS) - Recent weeks have seen the worst fighting between rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas since the latter's takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer. Hamas accuses the "treasonous faction" within Fatah -- which worked with U.S. military intelligence in last year's failed bid to destroy the resistance group -- of instigating the violence."
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Somali rebels seize key southern port, 70 killed - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=310738
A quote...."KISMAYU, Somalia, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Islamist rebels seized control of this strategic port in southern Somalia on Friday after the worst fighting in the area for months killed 70 people, residents said."
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Nuclear Suppliers Group refuses to approve uranium sales to India  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080822/116225219.html
Special Note - A quote...."NEW DELHI, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - The Nuclear Suppliers Group has failed to lift a 34-year-long ban on nuclear trade with India, delaying a U.S.-sponsored deal on civil nuclear cooperation, Indian NDTV reported Friday."
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RosUkrEnergo's Co-Owner Firtash Considers Construction Of White Stream Gas Pipeline Impossible  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/172886
Special Note - A quote...."Firtash said that successful implementation of such a large-scale project required primarily gas-delivery contracts with Central Asian countries. - However, according to him, Russia has already contracted to buy all the natural gas supplied by Turkmenistan (the largest gas supplier in Central Asia)."
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Russian, Swiss, Canadian Firms Bidding on Iran Reactor Projects  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706010741
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official said Teheran has signed contracts to establish six nuclear power plants by 2021."
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Iranian Oil Official to Head to China  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706010729
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is scheduled to pay a visit to energy-hungry China next week to broaden cooperation, the Oil Ministry said on Thursday."
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Iranian Bank Chief Dismisses US Sanctions as Inefficient  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706010737
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- American sanctions on Iran's financial sector have not hampered business for Bank Mellat, one of Iran's major state-owned banks, its managing director said Friday."
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The Chinese Dream has replaced America's  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4592197.ece
A quote...."In the magnificent new stadiums of their capital, in front of their fanatical compatriots, China's Olympians have walloped their American counterparts this past fortnight, capturing 16 more gold medals and ending the global supremacy that US athletes have enjoyed since the collapse of the Soviet Union."
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Will Capitalism Bring Democracy To China? -- Bill Moyers Interviews Journalist Philip Pan  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08222008/watch3.html
Video - A quote...."As the Olympics are set to close, Bill Moyers interviews Philip Pan, foreign correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief for THE WASHINGTON POST, on how the emerging economic power of China looks from the ground."
||  Transcript  ||  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08222008/transcript3.html
||  Podcast QT  ||  ---  http://www-tc.pbs.org/moyers/rss/media/BMJ-1219.mp3
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John McCain and His Secretive Plot to ‘Kill the UN’  ---  http://dissentmag.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/john-mccain-and-his-secretive-plot-to-kill-the-un/
A quote...."Does John McCain have a “hidden agenda” to “kill the UN”? That’s what the man who devised McCain’s big set-piece foreign policy proposal says - and he’s delighted it is sailing silently through the presidential election campaign towards success."
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Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court on Grounds he is Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/172912
A quote...."A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States." -- Tsk, tsk, tsk... the lengths some people will go to win an election get selected. No doubt Arnold Schwarzenegger will be watching this with great interest.  - mpg
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[British] Government loses Guantanamo ruling  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/government-loses-guantanamo-ruling-904530.html
A quote...."The UK Government must disclose information relating to a Briton held at Guantanamo Bay. He says it supports his case that evidence against him was obtained through torture."
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DU Shells Used by U.S. Worse Than Nuclear Weapons  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/35644
A quote...."The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine."
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NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/nist-wtc-7-report-shameful-embarrassing-and-completely-flawed.html
A quote...."NIST Claims “New Phenomenon” Occurred For First Time Ever In Collapse Of WTC 7 -- Yet fails to address why ground zero workers and media outlets had prior knowledge of an “extraordinary event” never before observed an hour in advance, plus myriad of other ignored issues"
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NIST's Laughable WTC-7 Conspiracy Theory  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=11581
Contains Video - A quote...."The conspiracy theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST recently issued a report claiming that WTC-7 a 47-story building that fell on September 11th, 2001 at 5:20 PM EST collapsed as a result of fire damage. The report cites a new phenomenon called thermal expansion that they claim caused the building to collapse. NIST makes these claims despite the fact that no building in the history of modern engineering has ever collapsed due to fire."
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As federal agency declares 'new phenomenon' downed WTC 7, activists cry foul
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/BREAKING_NIST_%3CI%3Efinally%3CI%3E_poses_theory_on_0821.html
A quote...."According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001."
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Two Powerful Forces Should Have Made WTC 7 Tip Over  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/two-powerful-forces-should-have-made.html
A quote...."Because NIST claims that only column 79 was destroyed in the beginning of the collapse sequence, and because the same side of the building in which 79 was located was the bigger, heavier side of the building, two different influences should have ensured that the building tilted toward the bigger end."
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NIST Discovers Fire  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/nist-discovers-fire.html
A quote...."NIST has solved the mystery of WTC 7, explaining that a brand "new phenomenon" was discovered, namely, that "thermal expansion" of the thick structural steel of WTC 7 led to its weakening."

How do you like that folks....it's a miracle.  Not ONLY was a brand "new phenomenon" discovered to explain WTC7's collapse, see above.  But a brand new science was developed to explain the anthrax attacks, see below.  Golly gee-weepers isn't "our" federal government just so out'a'sight wonderful!! - mpg
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Friday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 22 ] ===  ==========

Government Biological Weapons Legislator: Anthrax Inside Job Cover Up Continuing  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/220808Boyle.htm
A quote...."A former government biological weapons legislator appeared on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones show yesterday to discuss his detailed knowledge of the cover up of the 2001 anthrax attacks, which he is adamant were perpetrated by criminal elements of the US government in an attempt to foment a police state by killing off opposition to hardline post 9/11 legislation."
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WHY DIDN'T THE FBI INVESTIGATE Lt.Col.Philip Zack who was caught on camera???
  ---  http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/ad055b3ac71b0e7b  ---  Article list - database - mpg
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The Washington Post  the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week for August 21, 2008. - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://mediaputz.com/08/08/putz0821.html
A quote...."The Washington Post has been the target for the FBI's leaks about this case. But it's clear from recent events that the only advocating The Post is interested in is on behalf of the FBI and other government agencies. The saddest part is that uncovering the holes in the government's story would've taken no more than a basic knowledge of math and the U.S. postal system. But then, maybe truth is not the concern of The Washington Post." 8/21"
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The Bush Debacle: Inevitability and Consequence  ---  http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/bush-debacle-inevitability-and.html
Interesting - A quote...."There is a mathematical inevitability to Bush's many and consistent failures which are as numerous as his many lies and directly related to his certitude of all things though he is never correct about any of them!"
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The Real Cost of a Full Bailout  ---  http://mises.org/story/3062
Must Read - Financial Warning - Prediction -- A quote...."A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has zero credibility. It pegged likely taxpayer losses in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts at $25 billion. For those with a sense of history, it is worth remembering that the S&L bailout had a $160 billion price tag. The numbers diverge so far from reality as to be laugh-out-loud funny. Funny, that is, except that the CBO estimate demonstrates a willful disconnect with the actual consequences of federal government actions. -- As demonstrated below, the real cost of the bailouts will easily exceed $1.3 trillion. In fact, the real cost is likely to range between $1.3 trillion to $1.6 trillion, and is not unlikely to reach $2.5 trillion."
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Crunch Time  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20595.htm
22/08/08 "ICH' -- - Sharp contractions in the money supply and recession are two spokes on the same wheel. When the money supply shrinks, there's less economic activity, and the economy slows. An article in this week's UK Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard removes any doubt that a deep recession can still be avoided.
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Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP21695020080819
A quote...."SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's biggest economy hits further troubles, former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday."
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Citizens Bank and Trust, Chillicothe, MO, Acquires the Insured Deposits of the Columbian Bank and Trust Company, Topeka, KS
  ---  http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2008/pr08069.html
The Columbian Bank and Trust Company, Topeka, Kansas, was closed today by the Kansas Bank Commissioner J. Thomas Thull, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Citizens Bank and Trust, Chillicothe, Missouri, to assume the insured deposits of The Columbian Bank and Trust Company."
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[British] Recession a step closer as economy grinds to a halt for the first time since 1992 with growth at 0%
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047808/Recession-step-closer-economy-grinds-halt-time-1992-growth-0.html
A quote...."Britain slipped nearer recession yesterday when figures showed the economy had finally ground to a halt. For the first time in 63 consecutive quarters going back to 1992, growth was officially zero per cent. The dismal figures put paid to Gordon Brown's boast that the economy had grown in every quarter since Labour came to power."
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Wall Street Journal Claims U.S. Mint Has Stopped Selling American Eagle Gold Coins  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=3658
A quote...."As gold prices tumbled from their highest level ever, investors and collectors loaded up on one-ounce “American eagle” gold-bullion coins. The buying spree came to an abrupt halt this week after the U.S. Mint stopped selling the coins for the first time since production began 20 years ago."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia -  10 articles - Thursday - [ Day 14 ] =====  ==========

Bush to Putin, "Get out now!". Putin to Bush, "Nyet!"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20572.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 21/08/08 "ICH" -- - When Vladimir Putin heard President Bush demand that Russian troops "leave Georgia territory immediately", he did what any sensible leader of a great nation would do; he yawned, scratched his belly and ambled over to the Kremlin frig to see if there were any left-overs from last night's imperial banquet with the French dignitaries. He may have even smiled wistfully to himself as he peered over the Chicken Kiev and the Siberian cutlets, thinking, "Nyet, George; South Ossetia's future is no longer negotiable". --  The illusion created by the western media, is that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are hanging on every word that emerges from the White House and gaging their strategy accordingly. Wrong. In fact, they're not even listening; they can't be bothered. Whatever Bush says is  irrelevant. Who cares? Not Putin, that's for sure. Moscow is working out the details of its so-called "withdrawal plans" with the United Nations, not Washington. Bush isn't even a part of the process; he has no say-so at all. None. His fulminations might add a few toxins to the jet stream, but other than that, they make no difference at all. Putin is in the driver's seat now."  -- underline by website editor -- Also posted at GlobRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9908
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The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20569.htm
A quote...."21/08/08 "ICH" -- - The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia on 8.8.08 makes a closer look at the controversial Georgian President and his puppet masters important. An examination shows 41 year old Mikhail Saakashvili to be a ruthless and corrupt totalitarian who is tied to not only the US NATO establishment, but also to the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. The famous ‘Rose Revolution of November 2003 that forced the ageing Edouard Shevardnadze from power and swept the then 36 year old US university graduate into power was run and financed by the US State Department, the Soros Foundations, and agencies tied to the Pentagon and US intelligence community."
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And None Dare Call It Treason - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=13338
Must Read - A quote...."August 22, 2008 -- Who is Randy Scheunemann? - He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. - But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. - He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man. - From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 – pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20590.htm
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Washington sanctioned assault on South Ossetia - (YouTube - 6 min 9 sec - Added:  August 15, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJiVqg9_20
RT - Video - A quote...."Georgia wouldn't have attacked South Ossetia without the green light from the U.S, believes Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary to the treasury in Ronald Reagan's administration."
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France distorts Georgian peace plan' - (YouTube - 46 sec - Added:  August 20, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPzKoI6zD8
RT - Video - A quote...."Russia's ambassador to the UN [Vitaly Churkin]   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churkin  ---  says a French resolution aimed at ending the crisis in the Caucasus does not entirely reflect the six principles agreed by all parties. Vitaly Churkin made his comments after the UN Security Council held emergency consultations on the situation in South Ossetia."
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Russia Today YouTube Videos  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday
Multiple Videos
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South Ossetia independence rally blasts Georgia - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=308805
A quote...."Aug 21, 2008 10:13 EST -- TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Aug 21 (Reuters) - South Ossetia will ask the Kremlin to recognise its independence from Georgia, the leader of the breakaway region told a rally including widows and mourning mothers in his war-ravaged capital on Thursday."
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'Georgian mandate in S Ossetia over'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67205&sectionid=351020606
A quote...."Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:50 GMT  --  Georgian peacekeepers have lost mandate to operate in South Ossetia where only the Russian forces' presence is justified, says Russia."
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Israel Planned to Use Georgian Air Bases In Attack On Iran
  ---  http://dissentmag.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/israel-planned-to-use-georgian-air-bases-in-attack-on-iran/
A quote...."August 21, 2008  -- Two airfields in southern Georgia had been earmarked for the use of Israeli military aircraft, intended to launch an attack on identified targets relating to Iranian atomic energy projects."
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What Israel Lost in the Georgia War  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/172808
A quote...."Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 -- It is important that the entire world understands that what is happening in Georgia now will affect the entire world order," Georgian Cabinet Minister Temur Yakobashvili said last weekend. "It's not just Georgia's business, but the entire world's business." Such sentiments would have been unremarkable but for the fact that Yakobashvili was expressing himself in fluent Hebrew, telling Israeli Army Radio that "Israel should be proud of its military, which trained Georgian soldiers." -- However, the impression that Israel had helped bolster the Georgian military was one the Israeli Foreign Ministry was anxious to avoid."
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia -  10 articles - Thursday - [ Day 14 ] ===  ==========

Iraq still demanding withdrawal date, right to try U.S. troops - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/49782.html
Some quotes...."BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq Thursday in an effort to convince Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to consent to an agreement governing the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq that will be needed when the U.N. mandate for U.S. military operations in Iraq expires at the end of this year." -- ""The Iraqi government wants as a sovereign country to be the master of the law in Iraq," said Ali al Adeeb, a Shiite legislator from Maliki's Dawa party. "There needs to be a strict timetable, otherwise these forces will stay forever. Not having a timetable means they will never leave." -- You just want to break out into a rendition of "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
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U.S.-Iraq forbids attacks against Iraq's neighboring countries-FM  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46597&s1=h1
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Aug. 21, 2008 (VOI) – The Iraqi foreign minister on Thursday said the deal between his country and the U.S. would not allow attacks against Iraq's neighboring countries."
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Iraqi refugees in Egypt spurn government call to return home  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-08-21%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."Iraqi refugees in Egypt have turned down a government offer to lure them to return home. -  The snub came following a call by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who has offered financial incentives to help the returning refugees resettle."
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Afghan numbers don't add up  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH22Df01.html
A quote...."From the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to think-tanks, the consensus is that more troops must be sent to Afghanistan to counter the spiraling insurgency. The emergence of warlords on the side of the Taliban, though, has added a new dimension to the struggle, and one which cannot easily be countered by placing more boots on the battlefield."
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India places two-billion-dollar order for Russian missiles  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=66961
A quote...."Designers of the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile BrahMos hope to receive an order for the production of missiles for submarines of the Indian Navy, the chairman of board of directors of the joint-venture, Alexander Dergachev said."
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Big Russian flotilla led by Admiral Kuznetsov carrier heads for Syrian port  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/210808flotilla.htm
A quote...."As the West awaits Moscow’s threatened reprisal for the treaty installing American missile interceptors at Redzikowo, on Poland’s Baltic coast – signed in Warsaw Wednesday - the Kremlin is striking back in the Middle East – hence Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s honeyed words of reassurance to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert in a call he made to Jerusalem Wednesday, Aug. 20."
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Fear of new Mid East 'Cold War' as Syria strengthens military alliance with Russia  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4573599.ece
A quote...."Syria raised the prospect yesterday of having Russian missiles on its soil, sparking fears of a new Cold War in the Middle East. President Assad said as he arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of military agreements: “We are ready to co-operate with Russia in any project that can strengthen its security.”

This is what happens out there in the REAL WORLD when a few sick idiots leading some of what used to be Europe's most prosperous countries, along with a large chunk of the US's (N.R.E.'s) resident population, start to believe their own bullsh-t about how they're "helping" people in the Middle East by killing millions of them in order to steal their oil and occupy their countries.

It doesn't work that way, nobody wants to be "helped" that way, not even those psychotic low-life jerks (the US's-N.R.E.'s most favorite kind of leader) who could care less if their civilian populations get killed so long as they get to be top dog.  Not after seeing what happened to Saddam Hussein and many, many, other similar "friends" of the US (N.R.E.) in the past.
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No matter how many terrorist organizations the US supports   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  to disrupt nascent nationalist movements in these countries and serve as a never-ending excuse to invade them, everyone now knows where the true "terror" comes from and they’re not going to play along anymore.
Divide and conquer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#IRAQ  ---  doesn't work as it once used too, despite, and also surprisingly because of, the successful implementation in Iraq of "the El Salvador Option".
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-cmplt-111406

Everyone's seen the US (N.R.E.) in action: everyone knows how the "Great Game" is played now.  Policies of empire and colonization are as dead as a doornail and have been for over a century.... Europe  - (the N.R.E. is way beyond hope at this point) - should just grow up and give them up.

For more on this issue see....The Nuclear Rights Association - (N.R.A.) - Every Little Country Should Have One (Or How I Learned to Love the Bomb and Kiss the N.P.T. Goodbye) - 08-17-08 - mpg -- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thenuclearrightsassociation-mpg-reficultnias-081708
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Birth Pangs of a New World Disorder  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Birth-Pangs-of-a-New-World-by-Daniel-Pourkesali-080820-451.html
A quote...."The deal signed with Poland today is a continuation of a disastrous American foreign policy which threatens to nullify every international security agreement reached in the last four decades.  U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty [5] in June 2002 prompted then Russian President Vladimir Putin to state that "if the US proceeds to void the ABM treaty, [Russia] will withdraw from the whole other systems of treaty relations having to do with the limitation and control of nuclear arms". A warning loosely echoed [6] by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today."
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Missile Defense in Europe = Russia Bait?  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/missile-defense.html
A quote...."The U.S. is expanding its controversial, and mostly untested, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system into Poland and Czech Republic, provoking Russia into making thinly veiled threats. In the wake of the South Ossetia war, these threats have assumed a much more sinister edge than before."
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Experts Predict Slew of Torture Suits  ---  http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/experts-predict-slew
A quote...."One of the first known victims of the Bush administration's secret "extraordinary rendition" policy, Arar sued U.S. authorities in 2004 for conspiring in his torture. A three-judge panel dismissed the case in January, saying that as an alien deported by immigration authorities, he had no right to bring a claim. But as more such cases are being filed, it appears the courts are beginning to reconsider. The entire Second Circuit court -- all 22 judges -- last week announced sua sponte that it would take a second look at Arar's case. Meanwhile, similar cases filed by former detainees apparently tortured under the direction of U.S. officials could be headed to the Supreme Court. -- Legal experts predict that many more such cases could be filed -- as the hundreds of prisoners abused and then released from U.S. detention centers around the world begin seeking redress from Washington."
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Expert: US Unable to Undermine Iran-India Ties  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8705301278
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- A strategic expert has debunked apprehensions in politico-diplomatic circles that Washington could pressurize New Delhi into weakening ties with Iran."
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Belarus Keen to Expand Ties with Iran  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8705310564
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Belarus have good prospects for developing their relations, a senior official in Minsk said."
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Iran gets around US bank sanctions  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a05a3cb2-6f9f-11dd-986f-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
A quote...."Bank Mellat, Iran’s third largest state-owned bank, is getting around US-imposed sanctions by establishing links with small and medium-sized banks that have less US exposure than bigger lenders, its managing director said."
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Underground lifelines  ---  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/911/re2.htm
A quote...."It was only when the taxi driver made a sarcastic remark that he realised that his shirt was inside out. He took it off, pulled it the right side out, and put it on again. This resident of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza had just received a phone call from a pharmacy in Rafah notifying him that now they had received a supply of the medicine used to treat his daughter's nervous disorder. He knew he had to get there before the stock ran out, so he snatched whatever clothes were closest to hand."
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US military frees Iraqi journalist after 26 days
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2008/August/middleeast_August407.xml&section=middleeast
A quote...." BAGHDAD - The US military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges on Thursday, after 26 days in detention."
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U.S. Accused of Jailing Journalists Without Cause -- http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080821_us_accused_of_jailing_journalists_without_cause/
A quote...."An Iraqi cameraman working for such distinguished news organizations as the BBC, Reuters and NPR was recently detained by the U.S. military for nearly a month. It was but the latest questionable detention in what critics view as a pattern of intimidation." -- For more on this issue see....US - Killing the Messenge  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/uskillingthemessenger-weblist-mpg-112907
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I Have Evidence [article]   ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/dixit210808.htm  ---  Of RSS   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh  ---  And VHP   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishwa_Hindu_Parishad  ---  Making Bombs: Digvijay Singh  --  A quote...."Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digvijay_Singh  ---  attacks the BJP   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party  ---  just like Sushma Swaraj   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushma_Swaraj  ---  [one of the most prominent woman politicians within the Bharatiya Janata Party] attacked the Congress. ‘Investigate the timings of the blasts’, he tells NEHA DIXIT" -- Editor's note: The BJP party is the "right wing" Indian party that recently won a no confidence vote allowing them to go ahead with the US-India nuclear deal.
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POLITICS:  Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43605
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests."
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LAOS:  Film Reveals CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43635
Film Review - A quote...."PHNOM PENH, Aug 22 (IPS) - It was known as the ‘secret war’, a covert operation waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout the sixties and early seventies against communist guerrillas in Laos. - And the most secret location in this clandestine war was the former CIA air base of Long Chen, in central Laos, a place that remain off limits even today. - A new film, ‘The Most Secret Place on Earth’, to be released in cinemas across Europe later this year, explores this little known conflict."
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Peter Dale Scott - Cheney on 9/11  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmu5daHO7ZQ  ---  (YouTube - 9 min 41 sec - Added:  May 20, 2007)
Must View Video - A quote...."Researcher Peter Dale Scott questions the role of Dick Cheney on the morning of 9/11. Did his secretive actions have anything to do with "Continuity of Government"?
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9/11 Truth, Part 5- The Bush Administration on the Day of 9/11: Incompetence or Intent?  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8734
A quote...."This article is a brief overview of some of the chain of events on the morning of 9/11, and the actions and inactions on the part of Bush Administration officials."
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NIST Says A Fire Caused It; NIST Is Lying  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/nist-says-a-fire-caused-it-nist-is-lying/#more-1250
Must View - Pictures & Video - A quote...."It is high time we stopped putting up with bullsh-t. - Nearly 7 years afterthe fact, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (N.I.S.T.), a division of the Commerce Department, finally released their report on the collapse of Building 7 today."
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NIST: "Then a Miracle Occurs"  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/nist-then-miracle-occurs.html
A quote...."NIST's explanation for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 on September 11th follows the logic in the cartoon above. - Specifically, NIST claims that the collapse of building 7 is "the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building". - But then goes on to argue: -  "The fires in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event" - In fact, the fires in WTC 7 were orders of magnitude less than other high-rise fires, which did not produce collapses."
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Debunking NIST's Conclusions about WTC 7: Easy as Shooting Fish in a Barrel
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/debunking-nists-conclusions-about-wtc-7.html
A quote...."Debunking NIST's conclusions about WTC 7 is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel."
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NIST explains the near-free-fall collapse of WTC Building 7  ---  http://yannone.blogspot.com/2008/08/nist-explains-near-free-fall-collapse.html
Multiple Videos - A quote...."What does a lying government look like? By Mark Yannone 21 Aug 2008 In case you missed it, here are three views of WTC7 collapsing on 9/11: [Watch] --- http://www.wtc7.net/videos.html --- When the public saw the video evidence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5864an4_w6Q  ---  and heard the recorded testimony of eyewitnesses, they claimed that WTC7 was brought down with explosives in a controlled demolition and demanded an immediate investigation... The laughter at the government's explanations never stopped, so they did a three-year study.  ---  http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc082108.html  ---  Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Thursday round-up - 6 articles - [ Day 21 ] ===  ==========

Case not closed  ---  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7207/full/454917a.html
Must Read - A quote...."The FBI says it has evidence showing that Bruce Ivins was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks — but with his death, this will not be tested in court. A full enquiry into the case is needed if justice is to be done. -- Was Bruce Ivins a scientist-gone-wrong who single-handedly orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States? Or was the 62-year-old anthrax-vaccine researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland, an emotionally unstable innocent whose profile made him a convenient fall guy for the FBI?"
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Did FBI Scientists Identify a Single, Unique Flask?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/muratore9.html
A quote...."We are slowly getting more information about the FBI's lack of a case against Bruce Ivins. When we first learned of his suicide, we were told that he was the anthrax killer. Period. Then we got a statement that there was some technology developed by the FBI for the purpose of this case. Is this why nearly 7 years passed before an arrest was made?"
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Anthrax: Secret Programs Unveiled  ---  http://bushout.blogspot.com/2008/08/anthrax-secret-programs-unveiled.html
Special Note - A quote...."Wha-a-at? The US government was running a secret anthrax program back in the 1950's? Can you believe it? And wait a minute - "Ford White House"? Wasn't Dick Cheney working there? And Donald Rumsfeld too? OMFG etc."
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A Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/science/21anthrax.html?_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
A quote...."When the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it had cracked the long-unsolved anthrax case, the turning point cited by the bureau was its identification of a laboratory flask as the source of the anthrax." -- The entire case of the F.B.I. rests on a scientific method which is brand new (and has not been peer reviewed) a bunch of samples, one of which the F.B.I. fumbled the test on, and one of which they destroyed, all to supposedly link a single flask to the suspect....maybe.  Wow! They really nailed it this time. - mpg
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FBI says it easily replicated anthrax used in attacks  ---  http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/anthrax/news/aug2008anthrax.html
A quote...."Aug 20, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The FBI, seeking to counter scientific skepticism on its investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, insisted this week that the anthrax powder could have been made by one person and contained no "intentional additives" to make it more dispersible."
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Sandia work shows anthrax letters contained non-weaponized pathogen
  ---  http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/sandia-work-shows-anthrax-letters-contained-non-weaponized-pathogen-17198.html
A quote...."Sandia’s work demonstrated to the FBI that the form of bacillus anthracis contained in those letters was not a weaponized form, a form of the bacteria prepared to disperse more readily. The possibility of a weaponized form was of great concern to investigators, says Joseph Michael, the principal investigator for the project. This information was crucial in ruling out state-sponsored terrorism." --  Wow! Scary stuff indeed, non-weaponized anthrax that somehow contained "silica" which happens to make it  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00051.htm
  ---  as dispersible  ---  http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/usofficialsagonizeanthrax.html
and therefore as deadly   ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/10/MN111499.DTL  ---  as weaponized anthrax.  All you'd have to do is get your hands on any particular strain, put it into a test tube, dry it out as Ivins supposedly did and presto, you've got something as good as what could be produced by the US’s billion dollar bio-weapons program. Why any single "terrorist" or for that matter, your seven year old with a chemistry set working in your basement, could produce this stuff.  Who knew it was so easy? --  Anybody out there believe this rubbish??- mpg
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End - The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Thursday round-up - 6 articles - [ Day 21 ] ==========

NSA Security Officer: We Should Just Kill These People
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/NSA-Security-Officer-We-S-by-Richard-Volaar-080819-821.html
A quote...."Wayne Madsen, always spoiling for a fight with Bush and Cheney, or the chance to show off his undies to minimum wage airport TSA workers, has an executive level NSA staff person on record saying that significant sentiment exists within the NSA to kill troublesome bloggers and journalists."
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Conyers Questions Iraq 'Forgery'  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/082108b.html
A quote...."House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has asked current and former White House aides and ex-CIA officials to respond to questions about an alleged scheme to create a bogus letter in late 2003 linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda."
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Sibel Edmonds Case: Richard Perle continues criminal enterprise, MSM still silent
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Sibel-Edmonds-Case-Richar-by-Luke-Ryland-080820-726.html
A quote...."In 1989, the Wall Street Journal reported that Richard Perle and Douglas Feith had set up a lobbying company called International Advisors Inc [IAI] to lobby for "appropriation of U.S. military and economic assistance' to Turkey."" When news of the $600,000 per annum contract got too hot to handle, Perle and Feith folded IAI and helped establish the American Turkish Council (ATC) to accomplish the same goals, but with a more respectable veneer."
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Journalists and their good friends in the White House  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/20/abramowitz/index.html
A quote...."The Washington Post's White House reporter, Michael Abramowitz, was asked yesterday during a chat to name some of his "favorite people who work at the White House but who are not in the spotlight," and Abramowitz happily and easily offered a long list:"
Also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/20/11099/  --- 
For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1185-0-14-14--.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday."
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White House Missing as Many as 225 Days of E-Mail  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/white-house-missing-many-225-days-e-mail
A quote...."Washington - The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press."
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A Major Milestone in the Fight for an Open Internet  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/21-19
A quote...."It's official. The Federal Communications Commission delivered its order on Wednesday lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users' Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong. -- The order, approved by a bipartisan FCC majority at the beginning of the month, demands that Comcast "must stop" its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by year's end."
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Jim Cramer Goes Off On Everybody  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/210808Cramer.htm  ---  Good title.  Cramer's always fun to watch. - mpg
Video - A quote...."Cramer calls out what he regarded to be fraudulent destruction of Freddy and Fannie, shameful actions of the FED, SEC, Treasury, and Whitehouse; the damage being done to market capitalism; and directly implies that our economy is being illegally manipulated by insiders."
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USDA: US food prices to post biggest rise in 20 years  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1187-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday."
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Leading Economic Indicators Index in U.S. Falls 0.7% (Update1) - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTzqOnZDJIW8&refer=home
A quote...." Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The index of leading U.S. economic indicators fell in July by the most in almost a year, darkening the outlook for growth. - The Conference Board's gauge dropped 0.7 percent, more than forecast and the biggest decline since August 2007...."
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Philadelphia Fed's Factory Index Shrinks in August (Update1)  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=apGkr_tUxegQ&refer=home
A quote...."Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the Philadelphia region shrank in August for a ninth straight month on sagging orders and falling sales."
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Britain: Economy hit by inflation and threat of recession  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/ukec-a22.shtml
A quote...."There has been a host of statistics in the last few weeks that testify to the increasingly serious impact the financial crisis is having on the British economy and the living conditions of working people. The rise in the cost of living has outstripped pay increases for the first time since the 1990s—meaning that the average person is now officially worse off"
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Venezuelan Economy Grows 7.1% in 19th Consecutive Quarter of Growth  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3735
A quote...."Mérida, August 20, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Reflecting the increase in living standards and national production sovereignty, Venezuela’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 7.1% in the second quarter of 2008, relative to the same quarter in the previous year."
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Full spectrum dominance
  ---  http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2091&updaterx=2008-08-21+02%3A29%3A12
Must View - A quote...."Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the New Cold War"
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Will US attack Iran?  ---  http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Opinions/Columns/20-Aug-2008/Will-US-attack-Iran
A quote...."With American forces bogged down in Iraq and fighting a losing war in Afghanistan, rumour has it that the US will either itself unleash attack on Iran or prod Israel to do so. Iran's pursuit of nuclear programme is brainteaser for the US and the western powers that want to extend their imperial hegemony over the world and make every other nation toe their line."
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Fallujah Fall Guy  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5481
A quote....""Fallujah was declared a ‘free-fire zone' in November 2004 and we told the civilian population that they had to leave because the entire city was going to be deemed hostile territory," explains Zollie Goodman, a former U.S. Navy petty officer who served in Fallujah and doesn't know Nazario. "Some of them left. They carried TVs or food and sat outside the city and waited for the firefight to be over so they could go home." -- But, Goodman said, "some of them didn't leave," leading to many innocent civilian casualties. -- "We would just leave the dead Iraqis in the streets and they piled up," Goodman said. "It was disgusting. We ended up sighting in our weapons on these dead bodies. We'd been trained to keep our weapons 'on point.' You always want your weapon to be sighted in. So when we didn't have a target to shoot we sighted our weapons on dead people and dead animals. That happened a lot at the tail end of Operation Phantom Fury."
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The Narrative Versus the News - Journalism in the age of perpetual war - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329
Must Read - A quote...."The meaning – and danger – of the narrative was masterfully demonstrated in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The facts were tossed aside, or else cherry-picked and arranged in such a fashion as to mimic the truth while telling a brazen lie. The tallest of tales were woven around a story line, in which the central figure was a power-mad dictator whose quest for "weapons of mass destruction" posed a danger not only to his neighbors, but to the whole world. George W. Bush even suggested that Saddam was about to launch an armed attack on the continental United States. Iraqi drones, specially made to launch biological and chemical weapons, were supposedly assembled and ready to drop WMD on American cities. As dumb as this idea appears to be, some members of Congress apparently fell for it. After the truth came out about the "drones," however – they never existed – at least one vexed congressman found out that the photos he had been shown of these purported "weapons of mass destruction" were fakes, taken somewhere in the American Southwest."
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Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/08/18/gareth-porter-34/
Audieo Interview - A quote...."Gareth Porter,  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/porter/  ---  independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and Antiwar.com, deconstructs   ---  http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=13318  ---  the incredibly lousy reporting of one Pamela Hess from the Associated Press, whose recent article “Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran”  ---  http://www.newsweek.com/id/153265  ---  is in the running for the Olympic Gold Medal in Pentagon stenography and false accusations, explains the complex truth behind the U.S. and Iraqi governments’ relationship with Iran, the 2 and a half year history of the Cheney Cabal’s claims that Iran is responsible for the higher quality land mines in Iraq, the fiction of Mahdi Army “Special Groups,” Maliki’s distancing from the U.S. and thwarting of Cheney’s plan for a major assault on the Mahdi Army this summer, some of the many holes in the AP’s case, Pamela Hess’s justification for helping the Pentagon to cover up and disseminate half-truths and the need for the people who are able to contradict the official line to get their voices out." -- For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Zogby Poll: 2 in 3 Voters Want None of the Above - Than go into the polling booths and vote for sombody else!!!
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Zogby-Poll-2-in-3-Voters-by-Rady-Ananda-080820-243.html
Special Note....A quote...."


For more on this issue see....You Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia -  8 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 13 ] =====  ==========

Lies and Criminality About Justice Department and Georgia -- "So?  ---  http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8w/lies.htm
Special Note - A quote...."This is an essay about the consequences of lies and law-breaking emanating from the top levels of government. We'll get to Russia's Putin and Georgia's Saakashvili below. First: -- How can you tell when the Busheviks in America are telling lies or trying to hide the truth? One could resort to the old saw "When their lips are moving," but sometimes these guys inadvertently spill the beans. Remember Bush's own accidental truth-bomb when he said his role as president is to "catapult the propaganda"?"
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US falters on NATO's failure [Success at Avoiding Another Entanglement Like Afghanistan.]
  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH21Ag03.html
Special Note - A quote...."United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is supposedly a specialist on Russia, yet one would not know that by looking at her triumphal statement that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will defeat Russian aims in Georgia."
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Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century" - Hah, Hah Haaaaaa.....she's so funny. - mpg
  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/19/rice/index.html
A quote...."It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:"


"Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition." - bold by website editor
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Russia Plans South Ossetia Checkpoints  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_pJ8z4uII  ---  (AP / YouTube - 1 min 56 sec - Added:  August 20, 2008)
Video - A quote...."A top Russian general said Russia plans to construct a series of checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers in the so-called "security zone" around Georgia's de-facto border with the breakaway territory of South Ossetia. (Aug. 20)"
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Russia builds Ossetia 'buffer zone' - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/2008820143346769471.html
A quote...."Russian troops are fortifying a "buffer zone" around the disputed South Ossetia region with eight military posts and a ban on Georgian aircraft, a senior Russian commander has said."
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Russia smashes Georgian army, sends NATO message  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Georgia/idUSMCH95141120080819
A quote...."TBILISI (Reuters) - A roll of explosions at a Russian-occupied military base this week sent a clear Kremlin message to Georgia about the frailty of its infant military and its prospects for NATO membership. - The Russian army destroyed a hoard of Georgian arms and ammunition captured in a brief war that saw Georgian forces scattered, their bases seized and equipment carried off. - "Of course, there was a great symbolism to them doing this at the Senaki base," said Professor Tornike Sharashenidze of the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs. - "In their eyes Senaki was a bit of NATO that they just don't want to see in Georgia."
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Russia warns NATO against re-equipping Georgia's military - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/21/content_9562501.htm
A quote...."BRUSSELS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned Wednesday NATO against filling the gap of losses of the Georgian military incurred in its conflict with Russia. - "Any attempt of NATO to fill the gap of losses of the Georgian army contradicts the conventions of the OSCE (Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe)," Rogozin told reporters. - All NATO countries, Russia and Georgia are members of the OSCE. - He said the provision of strategic armament to Georgia and the flight of NATO reconnaissance planes along Russia's borders as requested by Georgia are regarded as hostile actions to Russia. - He warned that these actions may make Russia change its position on its relationship with the West, including military cooperation and on Moscow's policy on Iran."
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War in South Ossetia, Saakashvili is Descendant of Hitler?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr8wQABTt1U  ---  (YuTb - 5m 36s - 08-11-08)
Must View - Video - Eye witness testimony from a visiting American regarding Saakashvili's attack against South Ossetia. He’s naturally rather irate from having himself, his wife and members of his family subjected to Saakashvili's and Bush’s bone-headed blitzkrieg.

Poor guy, all he has to do is take a look at Iraq, and realize that wherever the US (N.R.E.) goes, death and destruction are sure to follow. - mpg

For more on this issue see....American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia -  8 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 13 ] ==========

Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/49538.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD — A key pillar of the U.S. strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces. -  American officials have credited the militias, known as the Sons of Iraq or Awakening councils, with undercutting support for the group al Qaida in Iraq and bringing peace to large swaths of the country, including Anbar province and parts of Baghdad. Under the program, the United States pays each militia member a stipend of about $300 a month and promised that they'd get jobs with the Iraqi government. - But the Iraqi government, which is led by Shiite Muslims, has brought only a relative handful of the more than 100,000 militia members into the security forces. "
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Baquba Raid Roils Sunni-Shiite Relations;  Al-Maliki to Disband Awakening Councils  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/baquba-raid-roils-sunni-shiite.html
A quote...."The raid by a special forces operation on the governor's HQ in Diyala province is being denounced as a rogue operation by the US military. Sunni figures have recently been targeted, raising suspicions that the Badr Corps paramilitary of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq was cleaning house, and suspected someone in the provincial government of having links to the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement."
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French troops 'killed by Nato jets'  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/172707
The ten French troops supposedly killed by the Taliban may actually have been killed by friendly fire. - mpg -- A quote...."Reports that 10 French soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan after being mistakenly attacked by Nato aircraft are to be "looked into," officials for the military alliance have said. -- France's Le Monde newspaper quoted French soldiers who had survived the ambush near Kabul on Monday saying they were hit in a "friendly fire" incident."
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Bush buried Musharraf's al-Qaeda links  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON - Pervez Musharraf's resignation as Pakistan's president on Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with US security interests." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Assad: We will accept the Russian missiles in Syria  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m46564&s1=h1
A quote...."This fast, important points translation of Assad interview with Russian newspaper Kommersant, Assad said that if Russia offered to place their missiles in Syria, he will accept the offer."
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Iran, Turkey to Seal Natural Gas Deal Soon  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8705301273
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey are to move forward with negotiations on a major agreement on the transport of natural gas, following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Istanbul last week."
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Law and order: Curfew America  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/law-and-order-curfew-america-902909.html
A quote...."The police state has not arrived quite yet but it may feel like it to the residents of some American cities, where a handful of embattled mayors and police chiefs are imposing strict and sometimes sweeping curfews as a last resort to quell new waves of gun violence this summer." -- Welcome to the New Roman Empire folks, sorry 'bout yo'jobs and yo'homes and all yo'medical bills, but you get what'cha pays for in the N.R.E.....no buyers remorse allowed.  You'all obviously wanted to do an EXACT replay of what happened to this nation during the late sixties and early seventies as it suffered from the ill effects of its last Imperial adventure, no other conclusion can be drawn from the fact you'all just keep right on voting for the same stupid jerks over and over again.- mpg
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79 Million Americans Struggle to Pay Medical Bills  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1179-0-6-6--.html
A quote...."Working-age Americans are facing mounting problems when it comes to affording health care, a result of what analysts are calling a "perfect storm" of economic woes. - In 2007, 41 percent of working-age Americans -- 72 million people -- reported having medical bill problems or trouble paying off medical debts, up from 34 percent in 2005."
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Wednesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 20 ] ===  ==========

WTC 7 Solved: It Was Ivins!  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/wtc-7-collapse-solved-it-was-ivins.html
Must Read - For fun. - mpg -- A quote....Following is a leaked version of NIST's August 21st announcement as to the cause of the collapse of World Trade Center 7 on 9/11."
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Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald  - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/08/19/glenn-greenwald-12/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Glenn Greenwald, legal affairs columnist and blogger for Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites,
[Powell,  ---  http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=92-9780307410313-0
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B&N,   ---  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Great-American-Hypocrites/Glenn-Greenwald/p/9780307408020
RanHouse,  ---  http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307408020.html
Ebooks,  ---  http://www.ebooknetworking.com/books_detail-0307408027.html
Amzn,  ---  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307408027
Towr  ---  http://www.tower.com/great-american-hypocrites-glenn-greenwald-hardcover/wapi/111459197  ---  ] discusses the FBI and national media’s attempt to hijack the truth surrounding the anthrax case, their post-mortem conviction of Bruce Ivins, the left/right/libertarian realignment against the warfare/police state and Glenn’s interview with Mort Halperin about his flip-flop on the Constitution-shredding FISA amendments bill."
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Salon Radio: Charles Grassley on the anthrax investigation  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2008/08/20/grassley/
A quote...."For today's edition of Salon Radio, I spoke with GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa who, to his credit, has been the leading critic in the Senate of the FBI's anthrax investigation. Sen. Grassley wrote an August 7 letter to Attorney General Mukasey and FBI Director Mueller
  ---  http://grassley.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&Press
  ---  Release_id=9f42563c-f11d-e765-d965-e937adfa47dc&Month=8&Year=2008
complaining about the FBI's secrecy and botched investigation and demanding answers to multiple key questions."
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FBI admits missteps, but defends anthrax probe  ---  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14560-fbi-admits-missteps-but-defends-anthrax-probe.html
A quote...."Several prominent scientists have questioned the FBI's case against Ivins and the scientific backing for it."

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FBI had, then tossed anthrax type used in attacks  ---  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/19/fbi-had-then-tossed-anthrax-type-used-in-attacks/
A quote...."Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had _ but destroyed _ the unique strain of the bacteria used in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now the government's top suspect."
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Did FBI Scientists Identify a Single, Unique Flask?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/muratore9.html
A quote...."We are slowly getting more information about the FBI's lack of a case against Bruce Ivins. When we first learned of his suicide, we were told that he was the anthrax killer. Period. Then we got a statement that there was some technology developed by the FBI for the purpose of this case. Is this why nearly 7 years passed before an arrest was made?"
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Advisor to FBI in Anthrax Investigation Says Attack Was False Flag Terror  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1166-0-20-20--.html
A quote...."We all know that the bioweapons expert who actually drafted the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989) - Francis Boyle - has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government, and that the motive was to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act."
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Anthrax suspect's attorney chides FBI's 'evolving' case  ---  http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=1462645
A quote...."Attorney Paul Kemp tells WTOP the FBI and prosecutors are tweaking the case against Ivins in a way that wouldn't be allowed in court. - "They get to control the flow of information and are doing so selectively and speculatively in a way that they're trying to implicate Dr. Ivins." - bold by website editor
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End - The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Wednesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 20 ] =========

Outrage about Health Canada's bill C-51 - (YouTube - 1 min 30 sec - Added:  May 14, 2008)
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=66763
Video - The New Roman Empire's version of klepto-crony-capitalism" is now invading Canada -- A quote...."City TV covers the Rally against Bill C-51. On april 8 2008, Minister of Health, Tony Clement proposed Bill C-51 as a safety bill. When read it is clearly not about safety, but is about control. It will restrict your access to Natural health Products while favoring big Pharmaceuticals. Tony Clement has had past involvement with pharmaceutical companies and is clearly biased. This will be to the demise of Canada's health food industry. Educate yourself on it and oppose it. www.stopc51.com."
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See also....Bill C-51" Videos - videos - Multiple videos  ---  http://www.truveo.com/tag/Bill%20C-51
See also....Stop Bill C-51 ! - video - (YouTube - 2 min 55 sec - Added:  July 14, 2008)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9jYvph2aeM
See also....Peggy Nash, NDP MP, Opposes Bill C-51 Part 1 - video - (YuTb - 2m 23s - 05-14-08)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Y4NegAY_Y
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Foreclosures smack home prices [in the Bay Area] - down 29.3%  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/19/BUPK12DR3G.DTL
A quote...."(08-19) 14:28 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Cut-rate foreclosed homes being unloaded by banks wreaked havoc on the Bay Area's median price in July, sending it down nearly 30 percent to a level not seen in more than four years."